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Elections 2012: Recap on Local Races
These primary elections were not particularly popular among Chicago residents. Voter turnout was drastically low in the city with about 23 percent of registered voters showing up to the polls. Among some of the local races, the heated 21st newly drawn district race between Silvana Tabares and Rudy Lozano Jr. concluded with Tabares, a former [...]
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Elections 2012: 1st District State Senate Race
In the 1st District State Senate race for Democratic nomination, state Sen. Antonio Muñoz will be running against candidate Adolfo Mondragon. Muñoz has been in office since 1999, is the co-founder of the Latino Caucus and currently serves as majority caucus leader. Before being an elected official, Muñoz was a police officer in the Chicago [...]
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Brown, Munoz Battle Over Modernization and Best Practices of Cook County Circuit Court
The Clerk of the Circuit Court race has two democratic candidates battling over transparency and best management practices. Longtime 22nd Ward Ald. Ricardo Muñoz will be facing Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown in a race where modernization and best administrative techniques are at stake. The circuit court files more than 2.4 million cases [...]
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Interview with Edward Acevedo State Representative of the 2nd District
Edward Acevedo is serving his seventh term as State Representative of the 2nd legislative district, which includes portions of Back of the Yards, Pilsen, Bridgeport, Little Village and McKinley Park. Acevedo is the first Latino to be appointed to the assistant majority leader position within the House Democratic membership. He was also appointed to the [...]
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Interview with Josip Trutin Candidate for State Representative of the 2nd District
Small business owner and now candidate for state representative of the second district, Josip Trutin, takes pride in his community involvement and his grassroots organizing background in his district. Among Trutin’s proposals in this year’s election is to increase the retirement age. In addition, he proposes to eliminate wasteful spending and shrink the size of [...]
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Interview with Cuauhtémoc Morfín Candidate for State Representative of the 2nd District
Cuauhtémoc Morfín has been a resident of the Pilsen neighborhood for over 30 years. He attended Benito Juarez High School and graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1996 where he received a degree in Political Science and a minor in Spanish Literature. After graduation he became a Legal Judicial Spanish Interpreter for the Cook County [...]
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Interview with Rudy Lozano Jr. Candidate for State Representative of the 21st District
Former teacher, Rudy Lozano Jr., grew up in the Little Village neighborhood and has geared his career path towards serving the community through education and community activism. Lozano earned his bachelor’s degree in community and youth organizing at Northeastern Illinois University and later completed his master’s degree in educational leadership at the University of Illinois [...]
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Interview with Silvana Tabares Candidate for State Representative of the 21st District
Silvana Tabares is a former journalist and first-time political candidate. A graduate of Columbia College, she worked as a youth educator for WRTE Radio Arte 90.5 FM, a youth-operated radio station in Pilsen teaching radio broadcasting skills before becoming the managing editor of EXTRA Bilingual Newspaper. A native of Brighton Park, Tabares used her role [...]
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